Opinion

It figures that my big-government-loving colleague would now want to give the state life-and-death power over us. He would deny it, but this power would inevitably be created if doctor-assisted suicide were legalized in Canada.

In my last post, I shared about my first experience, teaching teenagers here in Hong Kong. I am coming to the conclusion that I may have spoken too soon about the joys of teaching.

Recently, Westbank grandmother Gloria Taylor's battle with Lou Gehrig's disease has re-kindled the controversy over euthanasia, dormant since 1992, when then-MP Svend Robinson and ALS victim Sue Rodriguez took the issue to the Supreme Court.

The Editor, Is councillor Darrell Penner really so stupid to think that any legal hunter would try to purposely wound any animal? Whether by gun or bow, every hunter's aim is for a quick clean kill.

The Editor, I was extremely disappointed to wake up on July 1 and see that the Canada flag that my sons and I had hung in the front yard had been stolen.

The Editor, Re: "Who's Colony Farm for?", Green Scene, Tri-City News, July 1.

They cut in without signalling, speed, tailgate, yak on their cellphones and blast their horns in anger. Lower Mainland motorists are a belligerent bunch. So says a new opinion survey conducted by Ipsos Reid for ICBC.

FACE TO FACE: What is great about Canada on Canada Day? Moments before I began writing this column, I opened an email from the B.C. minister responsible for multiculturalism informing me that June 27 was Multiculturalism Day in our country.

FACE TO FACE: What is great about Canada on Canada Day? Canada Day: a time to postpone our political palaver and reflect on what it is about Canada that gives us goose bumps. K.D.

Today is Canada's 144th birthday and in the Tri-Cities we are kicking off a long weekend with a party in every city.